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Migrating your on-premise systems to the cloud gives you growing opportunities to distribute workloads, deliver applications, and expand resources for growing databases. Despite the ease of standing up cloud instances manually or through automation, your infrastructure can become difficult to map with lost resources or hidden instances in the sprawling environment.

With access to your cloud services account, Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring polls the cloud service APIs for cloud metrics and status. This data aggregates and displays through the Orion Web Console to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot issues in your cloud environment:

If you need to monitor beyond these amounts, SolarWinds recommends planning your monitoring for best performance and usage of your CloudWatch resources. The closer you meet or exceed supported Orion monitoring amounts may affect performance and poller load.

Cloud monitoring requirements

For AWS monitoring, you should have:

AWS IAM user account with assigned permissions and group membership for CloudWatch metrics

How monitoring works

With Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring configured, it polls cloud service APIs to collect metrics. This data saves to the Orion SQL Database providing historical records for monitored cloud instances according to retention settings.

Monitoring instances and volumes does not consume Orion product licenses but may consume polling calls for the service. For AWS, all polling calls Amazon APIs to collect and report CloudWatch data to the Orion Web Console. CloudWatch polling consumes Amazon free polling requests, a limit of 1 million per month. Any requests beyond 1 million incur additional costs through AWS. For details, see Learn more about CloudWatch API.